Metallic barrel-hoop



(No Model.)

E. FORD.

METALLIC BARRELZHOOP.

' Patented May 20, 1884.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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ELLSVVORTH FORD, OF \VESTVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

METALLIC BARREL-HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,962, dated May 20, 1884.

Application filed October 16, 1883.

which similar letters of reference indicate cor responding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of one of my improved barrel-hoops. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of the same, showing its ends twisted through one-quarter of a revolution and overlapped, ready to be coiled. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same, taken through the line w 00, Fig. 2, and showing a part of a stave in section. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a piece of hoop-iron. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the overlapped ends, taken through the line y 3 Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a piece of hoop -iron, showing a modification.-

Fig. 7 is a perspective View of apiece of hoopiron, showing another modification.

The object of this invention is to provide metallic hoops for barrels and other casks and vessels made of staves, and which shall be cheaper, stronger, and more durable than the ordinary wooden hoops. Upon the inner or flat side of the hoop is formed a rib, which may be continuous or in sections, and which, when the hoop has been driven into place, will bed itself in the wood, and thus hold the hoop in place upon the cask, as will be hereinafter fully described.

The hoop A is made of half-round iron of such a size as the character of the cask or vessel to which it is to be applied may require.

(No model.)

The ends of the iron of which a hoop is to be formed are twisted through a quarter of a revolution in opposite directions to bring the flat sides of the said ends toward each other, and are slightly inclined-one upward and the other downward-to keep the body of the hoop in line. Each end of the hoop-iron is then coiled around the body of the hoop adjacent to the other end, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to connect the two ends firmly together, and in such a manner that they will not draw apart or slip upon each other when the hoop is driven upon the cask. The inner or fiat side of the hoop A has a rib, B, formed upon it, which rib B may be in the middle part of the said flat side, as shown in Figs. 1, 8, 4, and 5, or along one edge of the said side, as shown in Fig. 6. The rib B may be continuous, as shown in Figs. 4c and 6, or in sections, as shown in Fig. 7. With this construction, when the hoop A has been driven into place upon the cask, the rib B will soon bed itself in the wood, as illustrated in Fig. 3, so that the said hoop will be held securely in place without being nailed or otherwise fastened.

I am aware that wire has been crimped or corrugated and cut in lengths to form hoops; also, that studs or ribs are not new on the under side of hoops but hat I claim as new is-- A new article of manufacture consisting of a half-round metal hoop-blank twisted at its opposite ends in reverse directions for a quarter revolution, thus bringing toward each other the flat sides of the ends, as described.

ELLSWORTH FORD. lVitnesses:

JAMES BIsHor, HENRY S. JoHNsoN. 

